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Creative Venturing: Creative Funding, Dec 6 2013 Moderator: Fas Mosleh, SVP, IP M&A Panelists: Stefan Lindsay, Director Sales, Incident Andre Gueziec, CEO, Beat the Traffic Bill Jackson, Former Kodak Executive, CEO Sinovia

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UNLOCKING THE VALUE OF YOUR IP

• Introduction

• Panelist views

• Prepared questions

• Open session

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Agenda


Kanzatec is a leading Patent Research and Transaction Advisory firm serving private and public high tech companies to help drive greater business success through high-performance patent strategies. Our senior consultants combine operating company experience in business management, information systems, patent strategy and operations, with analysis and research capabilities spanning many high tech segments. The company collaborates with a wide range of high tech companies, from startups to the Fortune 500.


Here it Comes

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– Global High Tech GM/Sales/Marketing/BD executive • Spanned chip to software

– IP Monetization executive at Kanzatec IP Group (sell ‘000’s patents/year) • 100+ buy/sell transactions over $200M • VP Global Acquisitions – Intellectual Ventures • Executive Director Patent Sales Group – HP

– Manager, founder HP’s 1st Venture fund in 1998 ($2B+ M&A)

My Background - Fas Mosleh

Experienced at building new businesses - Executive at venture funded startups - Agiliti, Vernier Networks, Jamcracker Executive at Hewlett-Packard, Eastman Kodak, Agilent, Avago Technologies and Micron; IBM UK labs & sales management

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Funding Examples- where I worked

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$100M $40M

>$30M $2B

>$100M


Corporate Introduction

• Founded in 2008 to focus on IT analysis and research – grew into IT product and system research, prototyping for F500 for IP projects – IT systems heritage

• Emerging, SMB & Fortune 500 companies in high tech – imaging, web, software, enterprise datacenter, systems, semiconductors, mobile/wireless telecom

• IP Brokerage Palo Alto, CA - Sales, Acquisitions, Valuation, Research/Analysis

• Global team members and Subject Matter Expert network – Silicon Valley, NY, Kansas, San Diego, London, Netherlands, Korea, China

– India, Europe, SMEs

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What Kanzatec Does – R&R

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IP M&A and Patent Sales

Drive greater business success through high-performance patent strategies


Example Industries We Serve

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Energy

Transport

Networking Medical

Imaging

Mobile

Data Center Semiconductor Cloud

Social Web E-Commerce Software


• Patent sale, licensing, secured loan

• Services/bootstrapping

• FFF

• Bank/credit/secured loan

• VC/Angels

• Crowdfunding

• Government

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Raising funds


• Situation – Need another round of funding

• Challenges – Business doing poorly – New funding hard to get at reasonable valuation

• Action

– Divest patents with a license grant back

• Results

– Obtained $2M to extend runway another 18 months

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Example 1 – IP Funding


• Situation – $1B+ revenues semi company

• Challenges – Unnecessary IP found every year

• Action – Create a regular revenue stream

• Results – Sell $1M of patents every quarter garnering 75% margins

– Healthy, dynamic IP strategy

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Example 2 – IP Income


• Situation – Seeking Funding/IPO

• Challenges – Must maximize $$s

• Action – Explore high return IP acquisition to boost valuation

• Results – Bought ~$2M of patents = valuation boost of additional $3-5M

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Example 3 – IP Boost

Equalizer


Comparing Standard vs. Syndicated

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Source: Intellectual Asset Magazine November 2013 (Fas Mosleh)


Patent Based Monetization Approaches

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Effort/Risk

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Time Taken 2 months 6 months

12-18 months

$1-2M

~$5M

>=$10M

Key: PLoan=Patent Secured Loan PSEI=Patent Secured Equity Investment Sale=Patent Sale SynSale=Syndicated Patent Sale Licensing=Patent Licensing Size of funds

Loan/Equity

Sale

License


A Look at Crowdfunding

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$5B Raised through CFP in 2013

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Types: Donation Equity Reward Lending


10 Most Active Crowdfunding Categories

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Top: Hardware Software Games Music


When assessing methods of fund raising

• Quality/Quantity

• Time to raise

• Difficulty to raise (resources needed)

• Constraints or conditions with money

• Smart vs. dumb money

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Factors To Consider

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Types of Funding by Ease & Speed Hard (effort required by Owner)

Easy

Slow Quick

Bootstrapping

IPO

Patents

Crowdfunding

Govt.



FFF

VC/Angel

Note: Positions above are exemplary, not necessarily accurate


Stefan Lindsay

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Creative Venturing

Upping Valuation Creative Exits Creative Funding

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Making music easy and accessible with

technology


The gTar is the first App-Enabled

Smart Guitar

An Interactive and Socially Connected Music

Experience


Company Milestones

• Won 2nd Place at TCDisrupt

• Reached $100K KS goal in 11 hours * Grand total of ~$355K in a month

• Then, the real work began...

• Fall 2013 - Units shipping • All Pre-order Fulfillment Complete

• Orders ship in under a week

• Appearances

• CNN Money

• NBC

• TechToys 360

• CCTV (China)

• Discovery News

Launched through a Kickstarter Campaign at TC Disrupt NY 2012

Wide Press Coverage:


TAM

Music Industry ($168B+) • User generated content

• Automated attribution

• Metrics / Analytics

• Platform for innovative content

use cases

Entertainment ($70-80B) • Casual

• Interactive

• Social

Education ($10-20B) • Fun

• Quick

• Convenient


Competition

Education

Entertainment

Music

Guitar Hero Tapulous Smule

Fretlight Ovelin Traditional*

Roland Jamstik Ableton

The gTar and Incident Platform breathe unity into a fragmented competitive landscape

*See education ROI analysis

Garageb

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Social Creation and Consumption

Creation

Collaboration

Consumption

Social Interaction / Content


Example: Education ROI Analysis

Cost Value Prop

$1000-1500*

- Painful learning curve

- Most students quit after first year

- Expensive and inconvenient setup

$400

- Immediate, out-of-the-box gratification

- Positive reinforcement

- Applications and Content Platform


If you've ever picked up the guitar for the first time and tried to play a favorite song, you know how discouraging it can be. The gTar completely changes that.

-Drew Houston, Dropbox co-founder and CEO


Andre Gueziec

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Mission: To help drivers beat the Traffic®

Triangle Software LLC d.b.a

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Real-time data, analytics, prediction, multimedia platform

Andre Gueziec, Founder and former CEO

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Intuitive Presentation Interface

• Automated, animated visualization

• Ease of use and operation

• Auto-populates with latest data

• Customized for each affiliate

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60 TV stations and cable providers, radio stations in North America

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Beat The Traffic App Presentation

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• Valuable crowd-sourced GPS data

• Monetization: ads +premium payments

Mobile traction Community Data

• iPhone & iPad, Android, BBerry apps

• >3 000 000 downloads

• Rated top 10 navigation

• approx. 500,000 active, regular users

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Quality Data

• comparing estimated travel speeds with leading source

RMSE 5.3 mph

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Strategic acquisition by The Weather Network in Canada

Successful Exit in 2012

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Bill Jackson

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Creative Venturing: Creative Funding

Bill Jackson Co-founder & CEO

Sinovia Technologies [email protected]


High development cost

High capital costs

Long time horizon

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Funding HW is REALLY HARD!

VC: “We like software companies, they fail quickly and cheaply” Find ways to minimize or remove these costs


Align with business unit

Fit w/ strategic direction

Watch for impedance mismatch

The adage that you don’t talk to strategics until Series B is gone

However: many still think “seed” companies are too early, there is activity at Series A


I’m from the Government and I’m here to help you…

National/State/Local

Doesn’t pay for “all”

Reports/oversight/rules


NRE/JDA’s with potential customers

Emerging HW incubators

License of technology

Friends, Family & Fools

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Other Sources


NSF Grants ~$1M

Outsourced Mfg

Partnerships

JDA, NRE & Samples

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Sinovia Tactics to Date


Thank you


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Prepared Questions and Open Q&A


• What is the most creative funding you ever put together?

• How would you fund your next venture and why?

• What factors should be considered when funding their venture?

• How do you price your company for a funding?

• How did you decide what was offered was the right amount?

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Questions



Thank You

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1) People buy on emotion, and support the decision with logic. Must make an emotional connection with investors. E.g. — Make them feel smart, enhance their reputation. — Keep it simple. Complexity = headaches ; Governing equation for high-net-worth

types (and everyone else, too). Use the five C’s: “Be concise, clear, consistent, compelling and compliant.” 2) Effective fundraising requires effective, marketing, replicable process Don’t lose prospects during the marketing process. Hunting for capital demands the

same precision as your core business. One hiccup and the tenuous trust you’ve built with prospects could evaporate.

3) People invest with people they know. Referrals are critical - you never know which “intermediary” will lead to pay dirt.

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Three ‘Secrets’ of Successful Fundraising

Adapted from Source: Forbes, Bryan Johnson


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